noun; a state of mind where one experiences a pleasant glow due to a combination of reminiscences of a past time, and completely forgetting how rubbish that time was whilst you were originally experiencing it.

Nostalgic Amnesia had set in, and Frodo found himself pining for the glory days in Mordor.

Diary exert: The poison throbs within me. I feel it wending its way within my tortured spine. When will this accursed doctor let me in? Hey, that girl in the splint is cute. URRRH! Stupid. Eschew this obsessive voyeurism, leave Glennifer in peace, and concentrate on our own PAIN.

Mate: Was she any good?
Stud: She was the gennifer, but, nar, not really.

The two states of being are as a human being, or a hungry ghost. Semi-regularly you need to ask yourself which you are. Sometimes it is human. Others, alas, it is hungry ghost.

The hungry ghost seeks validity outside of themselves. Someone pining for an indifferent ex is a hungry ghost. Someone who arrives alone at 6:30 on Saturday night to a pub is probably a hungry ghost. Obsessive checking of mobile phones, chat sites or networks are clear signs that one is a hungry ghost.

The best thing to do is just stay home and ride it out. Read a book. Find some good clean fun.

Mate: How are you?
Dumped: I'm a hungry ghost, man.

Mate: What'd ya do last night?
HG: Urg. I hungry ghosted around The Oxford for a few hours, then walked home past her house, and HIS car was there...